Elektra Records A&R director Michael
Alago, and co-founder of Q-Prime
Management Cliff Burnstein, attended a
September 1984 Metallica concert.
Impressed with what they saw, they
signed Metallica to Elektra Records and
made the band a client of Q-Prime
Management.[14] Metallica's burgeoning
success was such that the band's
British label Music for Nations issued
a limited edition Creeping Death EP,
which sold 40,000 copies as an import
in the U.S. Two of the three songs on
the record (cover versions of Diamond
Head's "Am I Evil?", and
Blitzkrieg's "Blitzkrieg") appeared on
the 1989 Elektra reissue of Kill...
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